Over-painted photos: Movement

Photographs from a photo-shoot I setup with my friends to capture movement.

 

Paintings from drawings

I made paintings from observational drawings in my sketchbook to develop my drawings.

Portrait

Ink, Charcoal and Chalk

These drawings are a recording of my observations which I will be able to use in the development of these drawings.

Drawing

Ink

Ink

 Ink

Pastel and Willow Charcoal

Pastel and Willow Charcoal

Drawing

Oil Pastel

Willow Charcoal and Chalk

R.B Kitaj

Ronald Brooks Kitaj (1932-2007) is an American artist with Jewish roots. Political history, Art, Literature and Jewish Identity are often the subject of his work.

Kitaj's charcoal, pastel and pencil drawings relate to life drawing sessions and my work on my surroundings at the moment.

Ashmolean Drawing (Oxford) IV (1958)

Pencil on Paper

53.5 x 41.6

Marynka Smoking (1980)

Pastel and charcoal on paper

90.8 x 56.5

Sides (1979)

Pastel and charcoal on paper

3 panels each: 77.5 x 28.2

Mary-Ann (1980)

Pastel and charcoal on paper

77.5 x 56

Quentin (1979)

Pastel and charcoal on paper

65.4 x 40

Posture

Willow Charcoal and Acrylic

Drawing

Drawing of Gt Grandma using Pencil.

Photoshoot

My aim was to produce images that would capture movement in.  I asked a few friends to move around the space in the photography studio and act as if they were dancing:




Idea - Make a recording and take stills

Postures

 After research into Euan Uglow I made a few poses to study from.

Drawing

Made Line drawings of Lorne repeatedly because I wanted to experiment using oil pastel

 

 Oil pastel, Charcoal

 

Charcoal 

 

Tutorial - Richard Cross

Richard Cross


My Themes: Animals, Natural Forms, Portraits, Landscape

Artists: Robert Rauschenberg, Hughie O'Donoghue, Jenny Saville (drawings), Kathy Kollwitz, Frank Auerbach, Avigdor Arihka (drawings), Jim Dine (drawings)

Targets:

• Prepare portfolio for interview. Develop some ides and images from your sketchbook on to a larger scale (e.g. work on stretched paper or canvas)

• More primary research - you need to keep taking photos and making drawings so that you have additional fresh material from which to develop work back in the studio

• Add more contextual research to your sketchbook

• Add more colour and use a wider variety of media in your sketchbook

• Keep updating blog

Friends

Pen

 

Compressed Charcoal